Example sentences of "[pers pn] [not/n't] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why had I not felt this when she was there ? |
| 2 | Day 14 ) Not only has Dave been on a raft the last week but today — honest Dave , I 've waited two months for that 50 bucks you promised me not to reveal this , but it has not arrived — he got off the raft and walked around Upset . |
| 3 | ‘ They 're constantly telling them not to do this and not to do that , ’ she opined , curiously , at this most un-authoritarian time in our history . |
| 4 | ‘ Prime Minister , I strongly advise you not to do this . |
| 5 | ‘ I ask you not to use this word in official correspondence . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Why did you not mention this before ? ’ |
| 7 | As a matter of fact , I nearly asked you not to bring this round . |
| 8 | I beg you not to forget this . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Did you or did you not read this book to the reception class ? ’ yelled Ali . |
| 10 | ‘ Did you not discuss this difference between you when you agreed to marry ? ’ |
| 11 | If a passage can be reduced to a set of elementary propositions of the kind approximately represented in [ 9 ] , can we not regard this as the neutral , " styleless " version against which all other paraphrases , such as [ 8 ] , are stylistically marked in varying degrees ? |
| 12 | But have we not seen this all before in Witness when Harrison Ford tries to assimilate with the Amish ? |
| 13 | Sa this wo this kid went out having this bloody bath said can we not do this every day ? |
| 14 | Negotiations with the landlords regarding a reduction of their rent demand of £100,000 per annum have been unsuccessful , and had we not used this break clause we would have been committed to the new conditions of the lease way into the twenty-first century . |
| 15 | The public at home would have been rightly outraged had we not taken this action , while the lessons that would have been drawn by other countries overseas were incalculable . |
| 16 | I gazed across at him , willing him not to wreck this moment . |
| 17 | Somewhere deep in Robbie 's rapidly fading consciousness a little warning voice admonished her not to let this happen , that it would only lead to heartache . |
| 18 | If nature has discovered the ‘ best way ’ of producing a sequence of changes that will result in an adult member of Homo sapiens , might it not recapitulate this sequence in the womb ? |
| 19 | Why did he not do this instead ? |
| 20 | Why had he not excised this passage ? |
| 21 | Had he not experienced this for himself , that God 's word and Spirit had worked powerfully in his own life ? |
| 22 | Exactly , and let us not forget this either . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've been trying to get us not to hush this case up . ’ |
| 24 | And he strongly recommended us not to accept this man . |